Bug 11141

Summary: runqemu ignores the environment variables KERNEL,MACHINE, and ROOTFS
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: brian avery <brian.avery>
Component: Scripts and ToolsAssignee: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium+ CC: bluelightning, ross.burton
Version: 2.3   
Target Milestone: 2.3 M4   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description brian avery 2017-03-09 23:15:03 UTC 
Usage: you can run this script with any valid combination  
of the following environment variables (in any order):  
  KERNEL - the kernel image file to use  
  ROOTFS - the rootfs image file or nfsroot directory to use  
  MACHINE - the machine name (optional, autodetected from KERNEL filename if unspecified)  

--- but setting any of these in the environment has no effect on what runqemu actually does.
Comment 1 Paul Eggleton 2017-03-16 03:51:03 UTC 
It's funny, I never noticed that it mentioned "environment variables" here - I had always read this as a list of named parameters to the script. I wonder what was intended? I guess we'd have to check back with the shell-based version to be sure.
Comment 2 Robert Yang 2017-03-16 06:31:13 UTC 
Hi Paul, the shell runqemu does support environment variables.